Month: March 2021

2:19 PM ET Florida guard Tyree Appleby left the Gators’ first-round NCAA tournament victory against Virginia Tech on Friday after taking an elbow to the forehead in the second half. Appleby received stitches and did not return to the Gators’ 75-70 overtime win at Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. He did come back to the team’s
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2:09 PM ET Associated Press Virginia has finally arrived in Indianapolis for the NCAA tournament, the 68th and final team to do so. The Cavaliers remained in Charlottesville after a positive COVID-19 test caused them to pull out of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament before a semifinal game against Georgia Tech on March 11. The
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2:08 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — One major league player was positive for COVID-19 during the past week among 14,845 tests, a positive rate of 0.007%. There have been 13 positive tests — 10 for players, three for staff — among 58,733 monitoring tests during spring training, a rate of 0.2%, the commissioner’s
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1:31 PM ET JuJu Smith-Schuster has agreed to re-sign with the Pittsburgh Steelers, he announced on Twitter on Friday. Sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter that the Baltimore Ravens made a hard push to sign the receiver, but Smith-Schuster wound up taking significantly less money to stay with the Steelers on a one-year deal. “This is
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1:51 PM ET Head coach Steve Wojciechowski is out at Marquette after seven seasons, the school announced Friday. Marquette finished 13-14 overall and 8-11 in Big East play this past season. “After a thorough evaluation of our program over the last week, which included multiple conversations with Steve, I concluded that now is the right
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11:14 AM ET JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jacksonville Jaguars coach Urban Meyer knew free agency was going to be different from recruiting, but he wasn’t really prepared for one of the most glaring discrepancies: Signing guys without meeting them. Teams are only allowed to contact the agents of players that will become free agents during the
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12:41 PM ET The day is finally here. March Madness has begun. There has not been the upset-filled, drama-packed, bracket-busting, 12-hours-on-the-couch, first day of the tournament in two years. The 2021 NCAA tournament begins in earnest today after Thursday’s First Four action. Texas Southern, Drake, Norfolk State and UCLA survived. No. 1 seeds Illinois and
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11:36 AM ET Canelo Alvarez will continue his pursuit to unify the super middleweight division May 8 vs. Billy Joe Saunders at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, where more than 60,000 fans will be allowed in attendance, Matchroom Promotions said Friday. Alvarez, boxing’s biggest star and one of the best pound-for-pound fighters in the world,
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11:36 AM ET HOUSTON — Four more civil lawsuits have been filed against Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson, alleging similar inappropriate conduct and sexual assault to the previous three that had been filed. This brings the total to seven lawsuits filed against Watson by Houston attorney Tony Buzbee, who has said on Instagram that there
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10:38 AM ET The Cincinnati Bengals signed offensive tackle Riley Reiff on Friday, the team announced. Terms were not disclosed. Reiff, 32, spent the previous four seasons with the Minnesota Vikings and has experience playing the right and left tackle positions. The signing comes on the heels of a season in which Bengals quarterback Joe
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10:35 AM ET Minnesota star Marcus Carr has entered the transfer portal, sources told ESPN. Carr, a 6-foot-2 guard from Toronto, earned third-team All-Big Ten honors this season after averaging 19.4 points, 4.0 rebounds and 4.9 assists. He immediately becomes the most sought-after available transfer. Minnesota parted ways with head coach Richard Pitino earlier this
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Last updated on 28 minutes ago28 minutes ago.From the section Cycling Ex-British Cycling and Team Sky chief doctor Richard Freeman has been struck off the medical register permanently. The sanction came a day after a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) ruled Freeman’s fitness to practise was “impaired by reason of his misconduct”. The General Medical
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